What Makes a FIRST Team Successful?

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Success can be measured on many different levels. I think any team that has changed any person's attitude on science & technology or inspired a member to pursue engineering constitutes success.

However, I think success should be relative to the goals of the team. If an 8th year team is only inspiring one student a year then there is a problem. Veteran teams need to be held to higher standards in terms of success.

Fostering teamwork skills, gracious professionalism, and project management are also skills that students should learn. I don't really know any way to tangibly measure the success of this.

Just my 2 cents.